Word: bucket
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...that freight rates on export wheat be lowered if possible, President Coolidge shows at least a better understanding of the causes of cheap wheat than the farmers or their representatives. Lowered freight rates on wheat for internal markets as the latter demand, would be a mere drop in the bucket; while raising the import tariff on wheat would be like shutting out imports of dirt. There simply ain't no such animal. the reason for low prices is, as President Coolidge comprehends, the almost complete absence of a foreign market, and consequently a mass of grain, usually exported, tumbled upon...
...dealt largely with domestic economic problems-in contrast to last year's international speculations at the conference in Manhattan. Chief discussion topics: the Mid-West farmer revolt; sporadic distrust of bankers in general and the Street in particular; the attacks on the Federal Reserve system; the New York bucket shop exposeé: the return of competition to world markets...
...John Burke, thrice Governor of North Dakota and Treasurer of the United States under the Wilson administration. Mr. Burke waived immunity to come from Montana to testify concerning his part in the operations of the firm. He told a pitiful tale of ignorance concerning the affairs of the notorious bucket-shop of which he was a partner, and concerning the results of its failure upon his personal fortune...
Fire brigades from the American and Italian Legations were refused admittance to the sacred precincts. The Chinese bucket brigades were inefficient, and several millions of dollars worth of property were destroyed before an Italian hose, manned by Chinese, was used to extinguish the blaze...
...this was a spiritual movement, then Jesse James belongs in the Hall of Fame as a great philanthropist. This steamship venture was a bucket- shop with a ' spiritual' veneer. Phyllis Wheatley, Frederick Douglas and the other Negro leaders after whom the ships were named must have turned in their graves...